Annette Bening Quotes

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A good book is an event in my life.

The first rule is you have to create a reality that makes the reader want to come back and see what happens next. The way I tried to do it, I'd create characters that the reader could instantly recognize, and hopefully bond with, and put them through situations that keep the reader on the edge of their seat.

Canton has meant a lot to me.

That was the bat signal for me - 'Rent' changed my life. It took me years before I got beyond that show.

I don't use 'best friend' often especially with someone I've only known for a year but Louise Redknapp completely changed my life and the two of us became these kind of wonderful confidence boosters for one another.

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

I want characters I can live for in a setting that makes me feel like I'm there.

'Ray of Light' changed my life. The whole album, but that song specifically, was just so life-changing and incredible for me.

The personal impact KG has had on me is life-changing. He's been the most important piece to my career in the NBA and one of the best friendships I have in my life. So I'm always blessed to say that he's my brother. We bonded so well because of how passionate and emotional we both are.

If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it's everything. It's bigger than school or family or anything else.

It's not what you go through, but how that experience affects you. For some people, it could be a near car crash that changes your life. For other people, it could take five years of going to prison for them to realize they need change in their life. So it's not really the experience but more how the experience affects you.

To say the 'Save My Soul' video means a lot to me would be an understatement of stupendous proportions.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life."

I'd like to think that what I've written over the years and what I'm doing now means something to people. People in the street all the time are saying "love the new record" or "I love that record," this tune or that tune. It means an awful lot, or it's been a big part of their lives. As a songwriter, what else would you really want? You're trying to connect with people, people's emotions, and maybe say something about their lives or feelings. That's probably a good enough compliment to receive, really.

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

Everything I've ever felt, but could never put into words, is poetically orchestrated through Mat Devine 's writing. In a lonely world, a book like this will make you feel like you belong. Simply put, Weird War One changed my life.